It is not the first time in last 40-50 yrs that Directors have been smitten by the phenomenon called Amitabh Bachchan. The aura surrounding the person,his legendary voice and acting skills have floored many. Director Ribhu Dasgupta is the most recent one to join that list. Sadly that is the biggest flaw of TE3N,apart from its extremely sluggish pace ,for a film in mystery thriller genre. Too much attention and detailing is given to John Biswas’ character ,his helplessness, posture, body language,swagger,not to mention those infamous blank looks he gives in Award show nights. He is brilliant as John Biswas but the film isn’t.
For a mystery thriller, it gives you too much time to think about all permutation combinations in your mind ,test them on logic and arrive at conclusion , while not missing anything onscreen in the process.
It’s extremely difficult NOT to predict the only big TWIST in the film. Add to it our filmmaker’s earnest desire and compulsion to explain in detail everything to the audience and not allowing them the luxury of interpreting as per their wisdom.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui is surprisingly dry and ineffective as Police Inspector turned Priest.
Even Vidya Balan, who carried Kahani on her shoulders so effortlessly, is wasted as Investigator. Both are utterly unconvincing .
The film is adapted from a Korean movie called Montage .
For Amitabh fans, it’s a one time watch film which falls short on expectation mainly due to its pace …it could have been a much taut 90min movie than the current 136 min.
There is this new breed of directors like R Balki, Sujoy Ghosh, RGV who are in awe of Big B but are capable of extracting amazingly different performances from the legend while at the same time ensuring he does not overpower the narrative. Sadly Ribhu Dasgupta is not in that league ,atleast in TE3N.
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